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HBU Moves to the Next Level

We have received notification from SACSCOC that our request to Move to the Next Level – with the launching of HBU’s first doctoral program, the EdD in Executive Educational Leadership – was approved by the SACSCOC Board of Trustees on June 15, 2017. With this formal approval from SACSCOC, HBU is now recognized as a national, comprehensive university. We anticipate that additional doctoral degrees will be developed in the next few years.

Houston Baptist University submitted the application for the Move to the Next Level on July 2, 2015, and was approved on January 19, 2016, to launch the program in the fall of 2016. In the spring of 2017, the University hosted a SACSCOC Substantive Change Committee to review continued compliance with the Principles of Accreditation. The visiting review team then prepared a report, which was reviewed by the Compliance and Reports Committee (C&R) and presented to the SACSCOC Board of Trustees.